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One islamic Terrorist and former pop star absconding for 12 years appeared in court on Tuesday beirut After turning myself in.
Fadel Shaker had been hiding in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein al-Hilweh since June 2013.
He ran away after a bloody clash in the middle of the road sunni Muslim Militants and Lebanese forces in the coastal city of Sidon.
In 2020, he was tried in absentia and sentenced to 22 years in prison for providing support to a “terrorist group”.
As part of the deal, which convinced Shaker to turn himself in, the convictions he received during the escape would be dropped and he would be interrogated in preparation for trial on new charges of committing crimes against the military.
Tuesday’s court appearance was a preliminary questioning session.
During the 2013 shootout between followers of fundamentalist Sunni cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Assir and the Lebanese army, which left at least 18 soldiers dead, Shaker appeared in a video uploaded to YouTube, calling his enemies pigs and dogs, and taunting the army, saying, “We have two rotting corpses that we snatched away from you yesterday,” an apparent reference to the slain soldiers. Reference.
Shaker became a pop star throughout the Arab world in 2002 with a massive hit. About 10 years later, he came under the influence of al-Asir and shocked fans by appearing next to the fundamentalist cleric at rallies and later said he was quitting singing to become closer to God.
In July, Shaker, with his son Muhammadreleased a new song that went viral across the Arab world and received over 113 million views on YouTube.